May the Google-force be with you

Today, Google and Salesforce are officially announcing the complete integration of Google Apps (Docs, Calendar, Gmail, and Gtalk) and Salesforce’s online enterprise apps. 

Google Apps will get exposure to Salesforce’s one million paying business subscribers, and Salesforce in turn will become more attractive to business users on Google Apps.

Google is in effect becoming Salesforce’s productivity suite. Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentation can be created from within Salesforce’s CRM application.

Google's productivity applications are free unless a company wants to upgrade to the premier edition (which includes added security and management features) for $5/user/month.

This partnership is interesting, considering all of the hullabaloo these days related to cloud computing. Anyone in the software industry should stand up and take notice.

We wouldn't want the future to proceed without us.